Comments on: AMD’s Sub-25W Yukon platform announced.

By: Altec Lansing M604

Altec Lansing M604 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:14:15 +0000

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By: chippy

chippy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:48:35 +0000

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10097479-64.html

CNet provides a clear picture of where AMD seem to be heading. I agree. As I said in the article, the new platform is not really about ‘netbooks’ but about fully capable mobile computers. Graphics and WM7 are probably the target here, just as I think VIA are aiming with their Nano CPU/Nvidia combo. (Ignore that Digitimes article that says they are putting their partnership on hold)
Intel have some good options though which will bring them up into this category but it must be hard for them to think about how it will cannibalise the existing low-end notebook market.

Steve.

By: Hany Hanna

Hany Hanna — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:40:43 +0000

I live in Korea and got Raon Digital to prepare me an English version of the Everun Note….not easy to get English OSes inside Korea. I’ve had it a couple weeks now and I love it. I don’t play games but I edit a radio show for online subscribers of rense.com and I make the mp3s and wmas for the online subscribers. I wanted something smaller and lighter to take with me to the college where I teach and still be able to do the editing from my office. It’s speed is very close to the AMD 1.6 GHz Turion 2X64 in my HP Pavillion dv2000, which I also like a lot because of the Altec Lansing speakers but can now leave at home. The only thing I would change is the limited 1 GB of soldered in RAM. I’m using eBoostr (like Vista’s ReadyBoost for XP)with a 1GB SD card and it helps a little but I expect even better when I can get my hands on a 16 or 32 GB SDHC card. The keyboard is not bad, though so far I haven’t done extensive typing. I usually that at home anyway.

By: EV

EV — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:15:46 +0000

Interesting read here http://www.netbooktech.com/2008/11/13/amd-focused-on-the-ultra-portable-market-for-now/

but yeah peculiar move by AMD, still shying away from the Intel-dominated netbook space. I’m really hoping that they enter this market because from an economic perspective it will be excellent for consumers.

I’d love to have a play with an Everrun Note although the keyboard just looks painfully small.

By: Umpc_Nut

Umpc_Nut — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:34:38 +0000

I will always be keeping an eye on developments like this because of gaming potential. The Everun Note already has the best gaming performance I have ever experienced on a UMPC so I hope the future holds even better performance.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:42:22 +0000

DISCLOSURE: I work for Intel and am not an official voice nor an authority on this topic

This is an interesting space for AMD to play in. This places Yukon in the middle of a full mobile experience with a Core 2 Duo processor (with chipset at around 40 watts) and a Atom + 945G chipset at less than 9 watts. I’m not commenting on good or bad, just interesting…

By: REMF

REMF — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:52:58 +0000

A netbook format, but not using the fusion CPU/GPU single package, i wonder what it is…………

low-power dual-core Phenom II at .045u and probably around 1.6GHz
low-power 780G chipset at .055u, hopefully paired with the SB750

Could be a very compelling product when put in a 10″ chassis!